Farewell 2014...

I wasn't planning on writing another blog post until 2015 but you know how it goes, those famous last words! Here I am, sat at my laptop with a green tea in hand, typing away! It feels quite natural to want to wrap up the year with one final blog post. One final farewell to 2014...!

 

2014 has been a good year. Not a brilliant year but not a rubbish year either. A pretty average year. I'm definitely not looking back on the best year of my life by any means, but there's been little to complain about. I feel like I've been happily plodding along on my little journey! There have been good times, some really good times! We've enjoyed some refreshing breaks to Norfolk and Scotland, celebrated a couple of our really good friends getting married, I ran my first 10km, we enjoyed a wonderful summer holiday in Lanzarote, I've earnt myself the title of Junior Sister at work and we've enjoyed some brilliant nights out, BBQs, dinners, theatre trips, gigs and adventures with the best friends and family we could wish for. Other times have not been so good... I've battled my way through several university modules whilst working full time, there was a minor collision with the BMW and a bollard in Waitrose carpark and we've still had no luck in the house buying department. But over all, the good has outweighed the bad and for that we can be thankful.

I really dislike all this 'new year, new me' crap that gets thrown around in the last few days of December. Just because it's January in a few days doesn't mean I need to change. Sure, there are always improvements to be made but rather than focusing on the bad stuff and the things you didn't achieve, why not try and focus on what was good? Last January I would never have imagined that I would be able to run 5km let alone 10km! Last January I couldn't have imagined myself as a Junior Sister, wearing a dark blue uniform to work! I'm my worst enemy at the best of times because I can be so negative and when I'm feeling negative I find it difficult to see the light at the end of the tunnel. But sometimes, just sometimes, I think we all need to tune ourselves into true cheese mode and imagine we're in one of Kate Winslet's beautiful, meaningful monologues...

2014 may have been pretty average, but I'm thankful that I can end the year smiling. There's a whole lot to smile about. I live in a beautiful flat with the most thoughtful, loving and hilarious boyfriend who keeps me grounded and cheers me on in everything I do. I have some brilliant friends and the best, most loyal family who I don't see all that often but when I do we have the best times. I'm very lucky. 

What will 2015 bring? Who knows - there are a few things I'll be secretly wishing for this year and a few hurdles I need to jump over - but what I do know is that I'll be greeting 2015 with open arms and a big smile.

Happy New Year!
Wishing you all a happy and healthy 2015.

Lydia xxx